My unspoken goal has been to complete (and when I say complete, I mean totally finalize) a short story by the end of this week (which gives me only one more day).

I’m getting close, oh so close, but, the end of the week might be cutting it a little close.

SO the next time I post here, I’ll be done with the short story. There. I’ve said it.

Let it also be said that if I come back here, crawling on hands and knees to make a post without completing said short story, I shall do so feeling mired with guilt.

ALSO, you should really check out DropBox. It’s a free program. And, as it turns out, it’s quickly becoming the single most important, indispensable piece of non-Word Processor/non-OS software I own.

What does it do? It lets you save your files on several computers at once (so you effortlessly have several backups). In other words– it eliminates the need to carry around a jump drive.

The free version lets you synchronize up to 2GB. That’s not a lot of pics, and not a lot of mp3s, but it certainly is a lot of text files. It’s like the free version was made with us writers in mind….

Anyway, wish me luck. (& thanks!)

I haven’t made a post in a while. My friends and family keep telling me this. There’s several million reasons why I haven’t posted in a month or so (and I won’t bore you with the details), but one of the biggest deterrents is the niggling thought Who am I to talk about how I do things, if the things I’m doing aren’t working? That thought has bugged me since I started this site. I need to do something about it.

It seems lately everywhere I look, I’m reminded that I haven’t finished anything in a while. So I’d like to complete something this year. It’s not like it’s going to be my book– No matter how much work I pour into it, it always feels like it’s 1/6th complete. I’ve even thought about abandoning this story and moving on to another (Sometimes a vast change is required to inspire movement.) but, no– I can’t do that, either.

So that leaves the short stories. I want to complete at least one of them by the end of this year, to the point where it’s ready for submittal … somewhere.

And the novel … I may have to set a hard date for being finished with my revisions so I have a date to work against. There’s a pretty good way of setting a hard goal and achieving that goal, something called dot-thinking, it can’t hurt to give it a try.